Tuesday, November 13, 2007

what are "paper Towels" made out of?

Jessica saw this in the bathroom at a cemetery. I love so many things about this: 1) cemeteries have bathrooms? 2) the written in word "that" 3) random capitalization 4) did you SEE all those quotation marks?

Great site! What's the deal with people using quotation marks for emphasis all over the place? It's making me crazy, as I seem to see it more and more every day. Another common and incorrect way that emphasis is attempted is through the practice of capitalizing words that do not warrant capitalization.

After seeing all of the quotation marks in this one, I had to share the following. This is a direct copy of a comment left on a news story:

This woman's clothing was certainly "inappropreate." As a frequent flyier I don't want to see "clevage" on a womans body from "either end." Dress code or not the airline did the right thing. This was not a "nudist flight." If she was so "humiliated" she did't have to get back on the same airline. She's had her 15 minutes of fame so lets move on. This was really not "news."

Not sure which is more annoying, the spelling or punctuation. At least from this blog I see that not everyone slept through English class!